Michelangelo Buonarroti: the distinguished homoeroticism

Abstract

In this paper we propose a critical approach to Buonarroti’s poetics from a conceptual device called “distinguished homoerotism”. In the first half of the 16th century, Michelangelo Bouonarroti’s poetic work allows us to go over the main cultural and aesthetic manifestations that the humanist movement had already displayed, between the Florence of the Medici and the Rome of the Popes. We propose a critical reading of some texts of his Rime, which definitely aim at the nomination of a personal poetry of this great artist, based on platonic idealism and on not-entirely canonic expressive ways.